Install RCD and isolate external users

Posted by Denny Meijer, on Wed 05 Feb 2014 04:22pm

Hi. Our house has got a system wide RCD, which causes all power to be off when there is too much earth leakage. I need someone to isolate 4 or 5 external uses on a separate RCD (lights, door entry, alarm, gate, sockets.

Rafal Kaczynski

Wed 12 Feb 2014 11:05am

Hi Denny I would suggest to post your job description on main website under electrics repair and maintenance the 3 companies will contact you to discuss details about a job Regards Rafal

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Andrew Procter

Thu 06 Feb 2014 09:05am

Hi Denny, You need to post this as a job request if you want someone to upgrade this. Either have a split load consumer unit with 2 rcd's or as Matthew suggested have all rcbo's in the consumer unit

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Matthew Colak

Wed 05 Feb 2014 04:50pm

Hi Denny, The solution is pretty straight forward however might be expensive. As all the circuits still potentially need some sort of RCD protection the solution is to remove completely the RCD and have all MCB's changed to RCBO. This means an individual circuit will not effect any of the others. Kind regards, Matt Elcert

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